ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,596, issued on June 23, was assigned to Itron Global SARL (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Networked utility services and vehicle charging stations" was invented by Dinkar Kumar Verma (Bengaluru, India), Srikanth Kathe (Bangalore, India), Ratnavel Nambirajan Subramanian (Bengaluru, India), Badri Narayan Krishnan (Bengaluru, India) and Madhurima Jaiswal (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Networked utility services handle data-flow in a system to operate electrical vehicle charging stations. In an example, first and second utility companies may operate in first and second respective areas. A user may have a residence in the first ...